Offering the irresistible deal of two Ashcircle sessions for the price of one, Yet More Warnings / Object Permanence is some of the best material yet from London’s most incorrigible sampler spammers. I dub Mackle and Macarte as such affectionately rather than accurately; over the past few years they have developed a musical flow and language that is anything but random. The sound-species they have neatly chopped up and rendered as readily accessible custom soundbanks range from physical instruments like winds (Level Up Everywhere) and guitars (Doubling Down, just released on Hideous Replica) to noises made by their kids (Dadcircle) and heavily processed concrète fragments (Off the Cliff Edge, its name taken from the duo’s stalwart Cliff Edge concert series at Hundred Years Gallery). The way they play is both erratic and focused, volatile and thoughtful, the nuances of the spontaneous interaction changing in response to the quirks of each arsenal of audio. Yet More Warnings seems to be cut from a similar cloth as Level Up Everywhere, except this time the strangled shreds are rounder and more colorful, 
the addition of brass squawks making “Spirit of Cooperation” and “Ever More Acidic” resemble big band free jazz played by a handful of wind-up robots. I love the way the musicians exchange fleeting roles: one sets up a looping thread for the other to fray and unravel; the other fills space at the surface while the one breaches it with a hectic array of more targeted tones. Object Permanence has the plasticky blips and yelps of squeaky toys and other bargain-bin trinkets, perhaps a synthetic companion to Jamison Williams’ game call improvisations. This is the joy of letting a rogue circuit burn itself out, a circuit constantly reconfigured by raw creation.
Noise Not Music 